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An Intrepid -class starship such as USS Voyager normally had a complement of approximately 150 crew. When Voyager left drydock, its crew complement was 153. During the tumultuous voyage to and through the Delta Quadrant , many of those were lost. But there were also several new crewmembers taken on, first from Chakotay 's Maquis and the Ocampa sector, and later from the Borg and the USS Equinox . In 2371 , Voyager had a crew complement of 141, ( VOY : " Caretaker ") whereas in 2373 it was 148 ( VOY : " Distant Origin ", " Displaced ") and in 2375 and 2378 the number was 146. ( VOY : " Someone to Watch Over Me ", " Author, Author ")

In 2373 , Vorik stated that 73 of the crewmembers were male. ( VOY : " Blood Fever ") There were two Vulcans and two Betazoids listed on the crew manifest, with one of the Betazoids, Lon Suder , having previously been killed by the Kazon in 2373, the other being ensign Jurot . In mid- 2377 , Lt. B'Elanna Torres stated that there were 140 Humans aboard Voyager . ( VOY : " Basics, Part II ", " Counterpoint ", " Lineage ")

Crew manifest [ ]

Crew manifest : Some names have notations as to where each crewperson joined Voyager . All the Maquis crewmen had provisional Starfleet ranks.

• Crewman Lydia Anderson
• Lieutenant Andrews ( security )
• Lieutenant Arkinson
• Ensign Ashmore ( engineering )
• Lieutenant Ayala ( Maquis , relief conn )
• Azan ( civilian , Ex-Borg , 2376-2377)
• Ensign Lyndsay Ballard (engineering, 2371-2374 KIA)
• Commander J. Bartlett (KIA)
• Lieutenant Walter Baxter (command/operations division)
• Ensign Pablo Baytart (relief conn)
• Crewman Kurt Bendera (Maquis, engineering, 2371-2372 KIA)
• Ensign Bennet (relief conn, 2371-2372 KIA)
• Commander Rick Berman
• Lieutenant Commander Alan Bernard ( Planetary Geosciences Division )
• Lieutenant David Bernard
• Crewman Biddle
• Lieutenant Ken Biller
• Lieutenant Commander Bob Blackman
• Ensign Blain
• Lieutenant Jerry Bono
• Lieutenant Mary Ellen Bosché
• Crewman Boylan (engineering)
• Commander Brannon Braga
• Ensign Freddy Bristow
• Ensign Doug Bronowski ( airponics bay )
• Ensign Brooks
• Lieutenant Commander Dick Brownfield
• Ensign Daniel Byrd (in an alternate timeline )
• Zayra Cabot
• Valerie Canamar
• Lieutenant Joe Carey (assistant engineer, 2371-2377 KIA)
• Crewman Carlson (Maquis, 2371-2378)
• Lieutenant Commander Cavit ( XO , KIA 2371)
• Commander Chakotay (Maquis, XO )
• Lieutenant Mandy Chamberlin
• Lieutenant William Chapman
• Ed Charnock, Jr.
• Jay Chattaway
• Crewman Chell (Maquis)
• Lieutenant Joe Chess
• John Chichester
• Ian Christenberry
• Lieutenant Richard Chronister
• Lieutenant Tom Conley
• Ensign Claudia Craig (KIA)
• Ensign Culhane (relief conn)
• Lieutenant Dick D'Angelo
• Crewman Kenneth Dalby (Maquis)
• Crewman Frank Darwin (2371-2372 KIA)
• Bob De La Garza (2371)
• Lisa De Moraes (2371)
• Lieutenant Commander Doug Dean (Planetary Geosciences Division; 2371-72)
• Crewman Jenny Delaney ( astrometrics )
• Crewman Megan Delaney (astrometrics)
• Crewman Dell (engineering)
• Ensign Michael DeMeritt (2371-2374)
• Jon Djanrelian (2371)
• The Doctor ( EMH Chief Medical Officer )
• Crewman Dorado
• Lieutenant Louise Dorton
• Crewman Doyle (Maquis)
• Ensign Wendy Drapanas (2371-2374)
• Lieutenant Pete Durst (security, KIA 2371)
• Crewman Emmanuel
• Ensign Farley
• Lieutenant Kristine Fernandez
• Crewman Fitzpatrick
• Ensign Jerry Fleck
• Crewman Foster
• Crewman Frank
• Ensign Arlene Fukai
• Crewman Gennaro
• Lieutenant Cosmo Genovese
• Crewman Gerron (Maquis, 2371-2378)
• Crewman Patrick Gibson
• Crewman Marla Gilmore (transferred from USS Equinox , (2376-2378)
• Ensign Golwat
• Crewman Grimes (relief conn)
• Crewman Hamilton
• Lieutenant Hargrove
• Ensign Harper
• Crewman Mortimer Harren
• Crewman Henard
• Crewman Henley (Maquis)
• Ensign Hickman (astrometrics)
• Ensign Hogan (Maquis, 2371-2372 KIA)
• Lieutenant Commander Merri Howard
• Icheb (civilian, former Borg drone, 2376-2378)
• Lieutenant Phil Jacobson
• Crewman Jackson (Maquis)
• Lieutenant Commander Richard James
• Captain Kathryn Janeway ( CO , 2371-2378)
• Crewman Jarvin (Maquis)
• Crewman Jarvis (security)
• Ensign Jenkins (relief conn)
• Ensign Ahni Jetal (2371-2373, KIA)
• Lieutenant Ralph Johnson
• Crewman Michael Jonas (Maquis, 2371-2372 KIA)
• Crewman Jones
• Crewman Jor (Maquis, engineering)
• Ensign Jurot
• Ensign Kaplan
• Ensign Marie Kaplan (2371-2373 KIA)
• Kellin (briefly in 2374)
• Kes ( hydroponics bay , civilian picked up at Ocampa , 2371-2374)
• Ensign Harry Kim ( operations officer , 2371-2378)
• Ensign Kyoto
• Ensign Lang (security)
• Crewman Timothy Lang (operations, KIA)
• Crewman Larson
• Lieutenant Commander Peter Lauritson
• Crewman Noah Lessing (transferred from USS Equinox , 2376-)
• Crewman Lewis
• Lieutenant Commander David Livingston
• Junie Lowry-Johnson
• Lieutenant J. Lyman (KIA)
• Dennis Madalone
• Jim Magdaleno
• Ensign Mannus
• Marika Wilkarah (former Borg drone)
• Ensign Martin (2371-2373 KIA)
• Crewman MacAlister
• Ensign Macormak
• Dennis McCarthy
• Lieutenant Commander L. McGarry (KIA)
• Crewman William McKenzie
• Lieutenant Scott McKnight
• Crewman McMinn
• Lieutenant James Mees
• Crewman Mendez (engineering)
• Mezoti (civilian, former Borg drone, 2376-2377)
• Crewman Mitchell
• Ensign Molina (security)
• Ronald B. Moore
• Crewman James Morrow (transferred from USS Equinox , 2376)
• Ensign Mulchaey (engineering)
• Ensign Murphy (science)
• Ensign Murphy (security)
• Morale Officer Neelix (head chef / ambassador to the Delta Quadrant /chief morale officer , Talaxian civilian picked up near Ocampa, 2371-2378)
• Ensign John Nesterowicz
• Lieutenant John Nesterowicz
• Lieutenant Susan Nicoletti (engineering)
• Crewman Kashimuro Nozawa
• Crewman O'Donnell (Maquis, 2371-2378)
• One (briefly, 2375, KIA)
• David Orlando
• Lieutenant Diane Overdiek
• Lieutenant junior grade Tom Paris (reactivated commission, conn, demoted to ensign 2375, regained lt. jg rank 2376)
• Miral Paris (civilian, born 2378 )
• Ensign Michael Parsons (security)
• Lieutenant Bill Peets
• Crewman Sandra Peterson
• Lieutenant Commander Michael Piller
• Crewman Jerry Platt
• Crewman Amanda Porter
• Q (civilian, 2377 )
• Quinn ( 2372 , deceased)
• Charlie Quizzlink
• Pierre Rahn
• Evelyn Rameau
• Abraham Rawski
• Rebi (civilian, ex-Borg, 2376 - 2377 )
• Barbara Reen
• Tony Reynolds
• Crewman Robertson
• Keith Rockefeller
• Crewman Rogers
• Ensign Rollins
• George Rosa
• Lieutenant David Rossi
• Lieutenant Commander Marvin Rush
• Lieutenant Russell
• Ensign Ryson
• Christopher Sarion
• Henri Scheimer
• John Schoolcraft
• Lieutenant S. Seaborn (KIA)
• Lieutenant Sandra Sena
• Michael Sendine
• Ensign Seska (Maquis/ Cardassian spy, engineering, defected to the Kazon 2371)
• Ikuyo Seuphon
• Seven of Nine ( astrometrics )
• Ensign Renlay Sharr
• Crewman Sharr
• Hindaki Shibunawa
• India Shigihara
• Lieutenant Suzi Shimizu
• Ensign Adele Simmons
• Lieutenant Alan Sims
• Ann Smithee (Maquis)
• Crewman Brian Sofin (transferred from USS Equinox , 2376-)
• Lieutenant Stadi (conn, KIA 2371)
• David Stipes
• Lieutenant Michael Stradling
• Ensign Strickler
• Crewman Lon Suder (Maquis, engineering, 2371-2373 KIA)
• Ensign Rick Sternbach
• Lieutenant Mark Stimson
• Crewman Swift
• Ensign Swinn
• Ensign Tabor (Maquis, 2371- )
• Crewman Tal Celes (astrometrics)
• Crewman Angelo Tassoni (transferred from USS Equinox , 2376- )
• Commander Jeri Taylor
• Crewman William Telfer
• Crewman Thompson
• Lieutenant Bill Thoms
• Lieutenant Jim Thorpe
• Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres (Maquis, chief engineer , 2371-2378)
• Ensign Trumari
• Lieutenant Tuvix ( security chief / chief tactical officer / chief morale officer / head chef , briefly, 2372, KIA)
• Lieutenant Commander Tuvok (security chief / chief tactical officer, 2371-2378)
• Crewman Unai
• Ensign Vorik (engineering)
• Lieutenant Weiss
• Crewman White
• Ensign Samantha Wildman (sciences, 2371-2378)
• Naomi Wildman (civilian, born 2372)
• Lieutenant Commander Brad Yacobian
• Crewman Yosa (Maquis, engineering 2371-2378)
• Ensign Charles Young (KIA)
• Lieutenant Commander T. Ziegler (KIA)

Unnamed personnel [ ]

• Unnamed USS Voyager personnel

See also [ ]

• List of Voyager recurring character appearances

External link [ ]

• USS Voyager personnel at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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Voyager's Crew Complement

by Jan Herfort and Bernd Schneider

Casualty List Crew Count Development Number of People and Names Related Issues

In some later episodes we are given explicit figures for the current crew count, but these don't seem to correspond with the death toll among the crew. In a few cases the stated crew complement even goes up although it should be down by at least the number of deaths that we could witness on screen or that were mentioned.

In the following we will investigate the question how many people died during Voyager's seven-year journey , we will outline the development of the crew count over time and we will try to find out whether the number of seen crew members is sufficiently low and whether it matches the number of known names. We will also have a look at some related, more specific questions .

Casualty List

In order to assess the development of Voyager's crew complement it is important to compile a list of casualties among Voyager's crew. A complete list of casualties or an exact figure is not available though. But based on the deaths that were seen or mentioned on screen and on an excerpt from a list of casualties that Seven views in "Imperfection" we can nail down a lower limit for the casualties.

Assumptions

• Not included are guests that stay aboard for a short time - up to a few months in the case of Marika Wilkarah ("Survival Instinct").
• Not included are crew members who die and are revived in the same episode.
• Not included are any parallel reality, fake, illusory or other alternate versions of crew members.
• Seska is not included because she dies after her defection.

List of crew members that die on screen or are mentioned to have died

Observations in the list of seen or mentioned deaths.

• The above list gives us a lower limit of 40 crew members that are killed in action. It is possible that in "Caretaker", perhaps in "Basics I" and "Equinox" and most likely in "The Killing Game" more of the crew die than the ones seen or mentioned. This could serve to increase the death toll where necessary for adjustment of the figures.
• Decreasing the number of casualties is harder because all deaths are quite definite. However, it may be possible to discount the three of the engineering crew killed in "Living Witness", because it is only a historical reconstruction. We will need to do that in our crew chronology to adjust the figures.
• The death rate in seasons 1-3 is about three times as high as in seasons 4-7.
• With the notable exception of "Caretaker", almost all deaths are violent. Otherwise, only shuttle pilot Bennet dies in an accident. No one we know of dies of an illness.
• A clear majority of dead crew members belongs to the operations division (yellow), but mostly engineers and shuttle pilots are killed, rather than security officers.
• Four ex-Maquis that we know of are killed (plus Seska, who dies after leaving the ship).

Casualty list in "Imperfection"

• Ensign Marie Kaplan
• Ensign Lyndsay Ballard
• Technician Timothy Lang
• Commander J. Bartlett
• Lieutenant Commander L. McGarry
• Lieutenant Commander T. Ziegler
• Lieutenant J. Lyman
• Lieutenant S. Seaborn
• Ensign Claudia J. Craig
• Ensign Charles Young

Observations in the casualty list 

• Lang was last seen alive in "Equinox II", and his death is first mentioned on the casualty list. So his name needs to be added to the 40 definite deaths. 
• With the exception of Lang, Kaplan ("Unity") and Ballard ("Ashes to Ashes"), the casualty list only contains new names. J. Bartlett, L. McGarry, T. Ziegler, J. Lyman, S. Seaborn, Claudia J. Craig and Charles Young are in-jokes, all referring to "West Wing" characters, and were quite obviously made up for only this one episode. A poor choice considering the importance of the list that ought to have included a few additional familiar names, but not detrimental to the series' continuity.
• Since 23 casualties were shown or mentioned on screen but not identified, those 8 new names could easily belong to some of the 23 unidentified casualties. McGarry or T. Ziegler may be the name of the chief medical officer, a lieutenant commander, who died in "Caretaker".
• It is also interesting that a commander is among the casualties. He would be the highest-ranking crew member besides Janeway. It would be extremely odd if he never showed up in some fashion even if making him the XO would not have been an option. So it is almost safe to conclude that the man named Bartlett dies as soon as in "Caretaker".
• The order of the names on Seven's list is a mess. At least it is ordered by a criterion that is not obvious, perhaps by the serial numbers.

Crew Count Development

We now attempt to outline a development of the crew complement over time that takes into account as much evidence as possible: the known deaths and departures, the new arrivals, crew sizes mentioned on screen and other facts.

• Scans of the ship (such as by the Voth or the Borg) are rated as reliable evidence.
• Statements such as "There are 150 people on this ship" are likely rounded. 
• Crew numbers do not include the Doctor. While the EMH may qualify as a lifeform, the holographic image will not register as one on scans of the ship.
• Crew numbers include all known children, civilians and permanent guests on the ship at any time.

List of crew members over time

Annotations.

• According to our reconstruction of events, no deaths or departures occured in addition to those that were seen or mentioned, with the exception of "Caretaker" where "we lost over a dozen" leaves some leeway. We use that leeway to assume as many as 18 casualties on Voyager in "Caretaker", in order to allow to allow as many as 36 Maquis to join the ship, as required by the statements in "Repression".
• It is well possible and would seem realistic that there were more deadly attacks or accidents than those that happened during the episodes or were mentioned (like the two more in "Alliances"). However, if more people died, especially in the seasons 2 through 7, this would throw off the mentioned crew numbers.
• It is still possible that Voyager started off with 153 people as mentioned in "Shattered" (and had a combined crew of 173 or probably even more at the end of "Caretaker"), but that would mean that as many as 10 more died or left off-screen, and only in the first season. This figure would rise to 19, if we decided to believe in Janeway's number of 152 crew members in "The 37's". Also, considering that at the time of "Alliances" no more than three crew members were lost to the Kazon, it wouldn't be plausible if there were many more unseen casualties that are not related to the Kazon in the first season.
• Janeway's number of 152 crew members in "The 37's" has to be an error for another important reason, because it can't be explained why still some 150 are left in later seasons, after several more deaths. The same applies to Tuvok's mention of 152 crew members in "Gravity" for the opposite reason, because it is simply too high. While the first becomes wrong only retroactively (the writers did not account for all of the many casualties in seasons 2 and 3), the latter is just a stupid mistake.
• We surmise that the death of three crew members in "Living Witness" may be an error. Either the historical reconstruction is not correct in this regard, or Tuvok's report about the three deaths was premature. With three more deaths along the way, the subsequent figures would be off.
• The "Silver Blood" copy of Ensign Harper gives birth to a baby just before the episode "Course: Oblivion" (stardate 52586.3). The creation of the "Silver Blood" copies in "Demon" dates back to some time between stardates 51813.4 and 51929.3. This gives us a time of 7.88 to 9.27 months until "Course: Oblivion". So the real Ensign Harper could have been pregnant herself when she was duplicated. We don't count her baby but it would be absolutely possible.

Number of People and Names

Another possible problem of the series is that either too many different actors and extras may have appeared as crew members, or that too many names of crew members may have been mentioned.

Total number of crew members that were seen or mentioned by name

Annotations and analysis.

• The above data is based on the list of USS Voyager Personnel at Memory Alpha, give or take a few people that we may have missed or falsely classified. It can't be verified whether the list is complete in the first place. Regarding "unnamed and seen", more background extras than listed there may have appeared in the series.
• If we don't count in the later additions to the crew, more than 142 different crew members appear on screen (74 named + 8 named but barely seen + 60 unnamed listed at Memory Alpha + x seen but unaccounted for). This means we can see every member of the crew at some point in the series. This may not yet include all people in Starfleet uniform that may have appeared in situations where they were not recognizable at all. It wouldn't be necessary but might be possible not to take into account eight crew members of whom we could get only a glimpse and who could be someone more familiar, either named or unnamed. So unless many more (x) actually appeared than listed at Memory Alpha, there is no issue that we may have seen more crew members than the ship actually had.
• We can show that the number of seen unnamed crew members (>60) roughly matches the one of mentioned unseen people (around 60). This may be a very good match, considering that on many occasions crew members were called out only as "Ensign Lastname", often not giving away their sex or division color.
• The situation would be complicated a lot, once we decided to include the various duty rosters that appeared in the series, consisting of dozens up to over 100 names that are usually barely legible. These lists customarily consist of very few names or "real" characters and are supplemented with the names of the production staff, such as Rick Berman, Arlene Fukai, Dennis McCarthy, Michael Piller or David Stipes, to mention only very few examples. It is obvious that once we decided to include all these names, Voyager would have a crew of 300 or more. It would also cause a problem to justify why "real" characters are largely absent from these lists. Just like the plethora of in-jokes on displays in Star Trek: The Next Generation, we should ignore the exact composition of the crew manifest(s) in Voyager.

Related Issues

Number of vulcan crew members.

In "Flashback" Tuvok refers to "the other Vulcans on the ship" , which implies that there must be at least one more Vulcan in addition to Vorik. But in "Blood Fever", when Vorik enters pon farr, it appears that the two are alone. At least, if a female Vulcan had been among the crew, it may have been considered at one point that she may "help" Vorik. In "Counterpoint" all telepaths have to hide from the Devore, and this concerns Vorik and Tuvok as the only ones of their race. However, in "Repression" there is suddenly a female Vulcan crew member in a red uniform that possibly can't have existed in the two previously mentioned episodes. It remains a mystery where she comes from. There is no good reason why she shouln't have been on board in "Counterpoint". Perhaps she isn't telepathic, perhaps she is actually Romulan, as unlikely as it seems?

Number of Maquis crew members

As already mentioned, the assumption that "almost a quarter of the crew is Maquis" would require 30+ Maquis at the very least among a crew of overall 146, and 35+ at the time of "Caretaker", if we account for the five Maquis who left or died until the fourth season. The more precise reference to 31 Maquis mutineers in "Repression" requires an original figure of at least 36, but only under the assumption that no Maquis died in addition to those explicitly shown or mentioned. Therefore we assume 36 Maquis at the end of "Caretaker" in our reconstructed crew development . We have no clue how many crew members died when the Maquis ship was pulled into the Delta Quadrant (Voyager lost over a dozen after all, 18 in our reconstruction), so in the absolutely best case all of them survived. So an original crew of 37 (36 +Tuvok) on Chakotay's ship seems to be the lower limit. On the other hand, Chakotay's ship is at most 60m long , with perhaps 3 decks, which appears too small for a permanent crew of 37. Perhaps they had additional personnel aboard because they were going to hijack a Cardassian freighter?

Lack of medical staff

It is obvious that the complete medical personnel of Voyager died when the ship was pulled into the Delta Quadrant in "Caretaker". Just after the first activation of the EMH, Paris mentions that the chief medical officer and the nurse were killed. In the following, Lieutenant Paris is assigned to assist the EMH because he studied biochemistry for two semesters ("Parallax"). It appears that no one among the crew is more qualified for the job, although biochemistry is not exactly the same as medicine. Perhaps the medical staff or the staff with medical training consisted of more than the CMO and one nurse, and they were all killed? Janeway speaks of "the entire medical staff" in "Parallax", which sounds like it could be more than two people. It is also clear that if the Maquis ship had a medic, he or she must have died before the end of "Caretaker".

Voyager Episodes index

Voyager Inconsistencies - including the famous shuttlecraft list

Redshirt Deaths in TOS - thorough chronological list of casualties, including "shirt color statistics"

Thanks to Robert Sharpe for compiling a chronology of Voyager's crew complement. Thanks to TrekCore for most of the screen caps and to Memory Alpha for crew information. Special thanks to Jörg Hillebrand for the caps of the Voyager crew manifests.

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How many people on Voyager?

Discussion in ' Star Trek: Voyager ' started by Tracy Trek , Oct 20, 2015 .

Tracy Trek Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

In "Caretaker", we know that Voyager lost Cavit, Stadi, the 2 medical staff and the chief engineer. How many others in the Caretaker's abduction? How many on Chakotay's crew. Plus given that it was just a small ship, how many crew did he need anyway? Off the top of my head, I remember Chakotay, Torres, Ayala, Seska, Suder, Dalby, Chell, Henley, Gerron, Tabor, Jonas and Hogan. At least I think Jonas and Hogan were Maquis. My personal theory (if it was a great deal more than the ones listed above) is he may have been transporting some additional Maquis troops to a different location when the Caretaker grabbed them. An observation. Did it seem like the Maquis crew were used as red shirts more often than the Starfleet crew? You know, the one who ends up getting killed in an episode. Now I know that crew members were lost over the course of the series, and they gained a few ( Neelix and Kes, Naomi, Seven, the Borg children, the Equinox five). In certain episodes where I've heard a specific number stated, it seems to be (and seems to stay) between 140 and 150. Bonus questions. How big was Voyager compared to TOS Enterprise, TNG Enterprise and the Defiant? Also, exactly how many shuttles did they lose during their 7 years in the DQ?  

stardream Commodore Commodore

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Voyager_personnel You might find this helpful. I have no idea who complied this or what methods they used to build this roster. I don't believe I ever heard the crew count go below 140. http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/inconsistencies-voy.htm This talks about the shuttles.  

hux Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

Caretaker = 141 + Tom = 142 Dead? Cavitt (1st Officer), Stadi, the chief engineer, the doctor, and his Vulcan nurse. In the next episode (Parallax) Janeway says they need a new transporter chief and astrogation officer so at least two more presumably dead = minimum 7 142 - 7 = 135 Add Neelix and Kes = 137 Durst dies in "Faces" = 136 In "The 37's" Janeway says there are 152 crew That means there are 16 Maquis (17 including Seska who left before the 37's). If you want more Maquis then you just need more people to have died in Caretaker (offscreen).  

Catarina Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

what's the point of doing the math? Like Janeway's birthday I could have sworn they also arbitrarily name off the crew compliment.  

17 seems like a reasonable number for the Maquis ship, I don't know why I thought it was more. Edited to add: Ok, I clicked on the 2 links. On the site I was directed to for the second link, there was a section that had 17 shuttles probably destroyed over the course of 7 years. With a number of others recovered but badly damaged. Plus, from the photo's given, the shuttle bay looked barely big enough to hold 2 shuttles. Neelix's ship was supposed to be stored in there as well. That link also had a section for crew numbers as well, and whoever wrote it had an estimate of more than a dozen deaths caused by the Caretaker based on a quote from the episode Nightengale. Plus the amount of the Maquis crew was much higher based on the episode Repression.  

Timo Fleet Admiral Admiral

If you want more Maquis then you just need more people to have died in Caretaker (offscreen). Click to expand...

Lynx Vice Admiral Admiral

It depends on how you count. A tip: Go to the Kes Website , choose the link "Crew List" in the left column. There you will see how, where and how many the crewmembers were. It's all made up by using Memory Alpha, Memory Beta and a little imagination!  

vulcan redshirt Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

The list on the Kes website seems to make most sense, as the one on Memory Alpha does include names off information screens, that may either be inconsistent and also include in-jokes and name drops for production crew. Not sure exactly where I saw it, but I'm sure I remember seeing that someone did a screeengrab exercise and compiled pics of all crew on Voyager, including extras in non-speaking roles, and I think that also came to a sensible 150-ish. So, If I remember this correctly, one can assume that during the run of Voyager, we did see everyone at least once.  

^^ It wasn't me who did that one but I do have some photos of un-named crewmembers. On some occasions I've given them names from the books which makes some of the books more fun to read. Maybe I will sort out those photos and publish them on the website. We'll see.  

I rediscovered a good website with lists of minor crew members. It's called Star Trek Voyager Lower Decks. Besides the crew rosters, it also has fanfic. Since I'm a relatively new member her, am I allowed to post links yet?  

borgboy Commodore Commodore

Lynx said: ↑ It depends on how you count. A tip: Go to the Kes Website , choose the link "Crew List" in the left column. There you will see how, where and how many the crewmembers were. It's all made up by using Memory Alpha, Memory Beta and a little imagination! Click to expand...

Drone Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

Does it matter? As exemplified by the empty cargo bay in the '37's, they were all Janeway acolytes anyway.  

Takeru Space Police Commodore

Re: How many people on Voyage Tracy Trek said: ↑ 17 seems like a reasonable number for the Maquis ship, ... Click to expand...

RoJoHen Awesome Admiral

Oddly enough, I just watched Season 7's "Repression," where Tuvok's mind melds "reactivate" the Maquis. Towards the end, Chakotay says something like, "There are still 32 of our people that need to be awakened." 32 might not be the right number, but he definitely said something in the 20s or 30s. Based on what had happened in the episode until that point, I'd wager that there were about 50 Maquis crewmembers on board.  

17 is purely based on the assumption of 7 Stafleet deaths in Caretaker. I think a more realistic number would be closer to 30/40 so you simply assume more (unseen/unmentioned) deaths take place in Caretaker.  

Re: How many people on Voyage Takeru said: ↑ Tracy Trek said: ↑ 17 seems like a reasonable number for the Maquis ship, ... Click to expand...

Timo said: ↑ How many Maquis could there be? Easily a hundred in terms of the size of Chakotay's ship: they were desperately fleeing, and a desperately fleeing runabout can pack sixty or so. Probably fewer in terms of the observed balance. But not so many fewer that Janeway could seriously have considered giving them holding cells instead of crew cabins. Timo Saloniemi Click to expand...

Follow up: I just watched "Shattered," and Janeway says the Voyager crew started with 153 people.  

Or then deaths were directly proportional to the degradation of the Caretaker's already addled mind and body, and Chakotay's team had the fortune of getting there first. Janeway also basically had a crew of rookies in an untested starship, so damage control may well have killed more of them than the initial impact. Chakotay had a crew of survivalists. I guess we have to discuss other technicalities as well. Supposedly, the bulk of Chakotay's crew was still aboard the Val Jean when the battle with the Kazon ensued. They were all beamed out under combat conditions. Where do we hit the limits of plausibility on that? Chakotay and Kim would both have to drop their shields again and again, and since the issue arose after the Kazon had taken the Voyager out of the fight, Chakotay was under constant fire from the Kazon juggernaut... Timo Saloniemi  

RoJoHen said: ↑ Follow up: I just watched "Shattered," and Janeway says the Voyager crew started with 153 people. Click to expand...

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Whatever Happened To The Cast Of Star Trek: Voyager?

The third "Star Trek" series to air in the 1990s, "Star Trek: Voyager" was also the flagship series for the all-new Paramount television network UPN. Making its debut in January of 1995, the series saw Captain Kathryn Janeway command the state-of-the-art starship Voyager on a mission to pursue a group of Maquis rebels. However, when a phenomenon envelops them both and hurls them to the distant Delta Quadrant, Starfleet officers and Maquis terrorists become one crew on a perilous journey home.

Despite a few cast shake-ups, "Voyager" ran for seven seasons and featured a consistently stellar ensemble. The series helped launch the careers of several of its lesser-known actors, while others can count the series as the highest point in their filmography. Some walked away from Hollywood after it concluded, while a few have since made big comebacks, returning to the roles that made them famous.

Since it ended in 2001, "Voyager" has aged like fine wine, earning new fans thanks to the magic of streaming where new generations can discover it anew. Whether seeing it for the first time — or even if you're watching it for the umpteenth — you may be wondering where the cast is now. Well, recalibrate the bio-neural gel packs and prep the Delta Flyer for launch because we're here to fill you in on what's happened to the cast of "Star Trek: Voyager."

Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway

It's no secret that Kate Mulgrew wasn't the first choice to play Captain Janeway in "Star Trek: Voyager." Academy Award-nominee Geneviève Bujold was famously cast first  but filmed only a few scenes before quitting the show during the production of the series pilot, leading to Mulgrew being brought in. Today it is difficult to imagine anyone else in the role, though it's hardly Mulgrew's only iconic TV series.

Following the show's conclusion in 2001, Mulgrew took a few years off from acting, returning with a small role in the 2005 film "Perception" with Piper Perabo. After a guest appearance on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," Mulgrew snagged a recurring role on "The Black Donnellys" in 2007 alongside Jonathan Tucker and Olivia Wilde and another in the short-lived NBC medical drama "Mercy" in 2009. Her return to a main cast, however, came in the Adult Swim series "NTSF:SD:SUV::," where she played an eye patch-wearing leader of an anti-terrorism task force alongside future "Star Trek" star Rebecca Romijn .

Of course, Mulgrew found a major career resurgence in 2013, starring in one of Netflix's earliest forays into original programming, "Orange is the New Black." In the series she stars as Red, an inmate at a women's prison, a role that would earn her an Emmy nomination. Mulgrew returned to "Star Trek" in 2021, voicing both Kathryn Janeway and a holographic version of the character in the Nickelodeon-produced CGI-animated series  "Star Trek: Prodigy."

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay

Sitting in the chair next to Captain Janeway for seven seasons was Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, a former Maquis first officer. Though Beltran counts his heritage as Latino, Chakotay was actually the first Native American series regular in the franchise but was sadly under-used, a fact that the actor has  commented on . Following "Star Trek: Voyager," Beltran's work on the small screen was mostly limited to guest appearances, popping up in episodes of "CSI: Miami" and "Medium" in the 2000s while filling roles in movies like "Taking Chances," "Fire Serpent," and "Manticore." 

Beltran's first recurring part on TV after "Voyager" was in the series "Big Love," starring Bill Paxton and Jeanne Tripplehorn. In the series, he played Jerry Flute — another Native American — who has plans to construct a casino on a reservation. However, over the next decade, Beltran seemed to move away from acting, with a sparse handful of minor roles. He revealed on Twitter that he turned down a chance to play Chakotay one more time in the revival series "Star Trek: Picard," as he was unhappy with the part they'd written for him. 

Nevertheless, Beltran did come back to join Kate Mulgrew for the animated children's series "Star Trek: Prodigy." Voicing Chakotay in his triumphant return to the franchise, the series sees the character lost in space and his former captain on a mission to find him.

Tim Russ as Lt. Tuvok

Actor Tim Russ had already made a few guest appearances in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and even the film "Star Trek Generations" before joining the main cast of "Star Trek: Voyager" in 1995. Russ became a fan-favorite as Vulcan Lt. Tuvok, who was later promoted to Lt. Commander. However, after seven seasons playing the stoic, emotionless Tuvok, Russ kept busy with a variety of different roles, mostly guest-starring in popular TV hits.

This includes guest spots in everything from "ER" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" to episodes of "Hannah Montana" and "Without a Trace." He even appeared on the big screen with a small role in "Live Free or Die Hard" in 2007, but it didn't keep him away from TV, as he also had a multi-episode appearance on the hit soap "General Hospital." That same year, Russ joined the main cast of the Christina Applegate comedy "Samantha Who?" and later began working in video games, providing voice work for "Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus" and "The Last of Us Part 2." 

Since then, the actor has kept busy with countless roles in such as "Criminal Minds," "NCIS: New Orleans," "Supergirl," and "The Good Doctor." More recently, Russ turned up in an episode of Seth MacFarlane's "Star Trek" homage "The Orville,"  and in 2023 voiced Lucius Fox in the animated film "Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham."

Roxann Dawson as B'Elanna Torres

On "Star Trek: Voyager," the role of chief engineer was filled by Roxann Dawson who played half-Klingon/half-human B'Elanna Torres. Starting out as a Maquis rebel, she eventually becomes one of the most important members of the crew, as well as a wife and mother. Following her run on the series, Dawson had just a handful of on-screen roles, which included single episodes of "The Closer" and "Without a Trace." That's because, like her franchise cohort  Jonathan Frakes , Dawson moved behind the camera to become a director full-time.

Getting her start overseeing episodes of "Voyager" first, Dawson moved on to helm entries of "Star Trek" spin-off "Enterprise" before broadening to other shows across television. Since 2005, Dawson has directed episodes of some of the biggest hits on TV including "Lost" and "The O.C." in 2006, eight episodes of "Cold Case," a trio of "Heroes" episodes, and more. 

We could go on and on rattling off the hit shows she's sat behind the camera for but among her most notable might be the David Simon HBO series "Treme" in 2011, "Hell on Wheels" with future starship captain Anson Mount, and modern masterpieces like "Bates Motel," "The Americans," and "This is Us." Her most recent work saw her return to sci-fi, helming two episodes of the Apple TV+ series "Foundation."

Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim

Despite never seeing a rise in rank and perpetually remaining a low-level ensign, Harry Kim — played by Garrett Wang – often played a crucial role in defeating many of the enemies the crew would face in the Delta Quadrant. When "Star Trek: Voyager" left the airwaves, though, Wang bounced around, with his biggest role arguably coming in the 2005 Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries "Into the West." He has continued embracing his role as Ensign Kim by appearing at many fan conventions, where he found an entirely new calling. 

Beginning in 2010, Kim embarked on a career as an event moderator, serving as the Master of Ceremonies at that year's FedCon (a science fiction convention held in Germany). Later, he was the Trek Track Director at the celebrated Dragon Con event, held annually in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the course of his new career, Wang has held moderating duties and hosted panels and events at major pop culture conventions in Montreal, Edmonton, Phoenix, and Denver. According to Wang, his biggest role as a moderator came at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo in 2012, where he interviewed the legendary Stan Lee .

In 2020, Wang joined forces with co-star Robert Duncan McNeill to launch "The Delta Flyers," a podcast that discusses classic episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager."

Robert Duncan McNeill as Lt. Tom Paris

Robert Duncan McNeill guest-starred in an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as a hotshot pilot who broke the rules and wound up booted from Starfleet. So when producers developed a similar character, they brought in McNeill to play him, resulting in brash, cavalier helm officer Tom Paris. In 2002, after "Star Trek: Voyager" ended, McNeill starred in an episode of  "The Outer Limits" revival  and a few more small roles. However, like Dawson, McNeill left acting not long after the series ended to become a director and producer, starting with four episodes of "Star Trek: Enterprise."

Into the 2000s, McNiell helmed episodes of "Dawson's Creek" and "One Tree Hill" before becoming an executive producer on the action-comedy series "Chuck" starring Zachary Levi. Ultimately he'd direct 21 episodes of that series across its five seasons. From there, McNeill went on to sit behind the camera for installments of "The Mentalist," "Blue Bloods," and "Suits." 

Since the 2010s, McNeill has served as an executive producer on further shows that included "The Gifted," the Disney+ reboot of "Turner & Hooch," and the SyFy series "Resident Alien." In addition to hosting "The Delta Flyers" podcast with co-star Garrett Wang, McNeill came back to "Star Trek" in 2022 when he voiced the character of Tom Paris in a cameo on the animated comedy "Star Trek: Lower Decks."

Ethan Phillips as Neelix

Another actor to appear on "Star Trek" before taking a leading role on "Voyager," Ethan Phillips played the quirky alien chef Neelix for all seven seasons of the show's run. A well-established veteran, his TV roles prior had included dramas like "NYPD Blue" and family hits like "Doogie Howser, M.D." Unfortunately, his role on "Voyager" never translated to big-time success after, though he hardly struggled for work. That's because he went back to his former career as a character actor.

In the ensuing years, Phillips could be seen all over the dial and beyond, with parts in "Touched by an Angel" and "8 Simple Rules" among many others, even popping up in a guest-starring role in an episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise" in 2002. Later he did a three-episode run on "Boston Legal," another Beantown-based legal drama from David E. Kelley, this one starring "Star Trek" legend William Shatner and "Deep Space Nine" alum René Auberjonois. Some of the biggest shows he's found work on during the 2010s meanwhile include "Better Call Saul" and a recurring role in the Lena Dunham comedy "Girls." He's also had roles in major movies, showing up in "Inside Llewyn Davis," "The Purge: Election Year," and "The Island."

Though he hasn't come back to "Star Trek," Phillips did return to sci-fi in 2020, joining the main cast of the HBO space comedy "Avenue 5" alongside Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad.

Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine

Though she didn't arrive on "Star Trek: Voyager" until Season 4, Jeri Ryan arguably became the series' biggest star. She came in to help liven up a series that was struggling and joined the cast as a former Borg drone named Seven of Nine . It proved to be just what the series needed and a career-defining role for Ryan. One of the few cast members of "Voyager" to parlay her role into bigger success, Ryan immediately joined the David E. Kelley legal drama "Boston Public" after the series ended.

There she had a three-season run and in 2006 she secured another starring role on another legal drama, this time in the James Woods series "Shark," with Danielle Panabaker and Henry Simmons. Smaller recurring roles came after, including multi-episode stints on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Two and a Half Men," and "Leverage," before Ryan returned to a main cast with her co-starring role in "Body of Proof" in 2011 alongside Dana Delany. Parts in "Helix" and "Bosch" came after, as well as brief recurring roles in "MacGyver" and "Major Crimes," leading right up to her return to "Star Trek" in 2020.

That year, Ryan joined the cast of the revival series "Star Trek: Picard." Returning to the role of Seven of Nine, she supported series lead Patrick Stewart by appearing in all three seasons, and rumor has it she may even star in a spin-off. 

Jennifer Lien as Kes

Joining the Starfleet and Maquis crew aboard Voyager was Kes, a young alien woman with mild telepathic powers and just a nine-year lifespan, and played by Jennifer Lien. Unfortunately, her character never quite gelled, and in Season 4 Lien was written out to make way for Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine.

Leaving the series in 1997, Lien's career stalled in front of the camera, though she did manage a role in "American History X" alongside "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" star Avery Brooks. However, most of her subsequent work came in animation, with voice work in "Superman: The Animated Series" — where she played Inza, the wife of Doctor Fate — and a starring role as Agent L in "Men in Black: The Series." 

Unfortunately, Lien pretty much left acting shortly after that. She married filmmaker Phil Hwang and started a family but has faced personal problems along the way. While struggling to deal with her mental health, Lien was arrested in 2015 for indecent exposure and again in 2018 for driving without a license. 

If you or someone you know needs help with mental health, please contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741, call the National Alliance on Mental Illness helpline at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264), or visit the National Institute of Mental Health website .

Manu Intiraymi as Icheb

Late in Season 6 of "Star Trek: Voyager," a storyline saw the ship rescue a stranded vessel commanded by a group of wayward Borg children. At the conclusion of the story, four young drones join the crew, becoming a surrogate family of sorts to Seven of Nine after jettisoning their Borg identities. The eldest of them is Icheb, a teenager who becomes like a brother to Seven, played by actor Manu Intiraymi. The young actor went on to make 11 appearances across the final two seasons of the show. 

When "Voyager" ended in 2001, Intiraymi continued acting, with his largest role coming in "One Tree Hill." There he played Billy — a local drug dealer — in a recurring role in 2012. Further projects were mostly independent films like "5th Passenger" in 2017 and "Hell on the Border," a 2019 Western starring David Gyasi, Ron Perlman, and Frank Grillo. 

In 2017, Intiraymi came under fire for criticizing fellow "Star Trek" actor Anthony Rapp, who'd made accusations of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey . A few years later, fans speculated those comments may have been why he wasn't asked to return to the role of Icheb in "Star Trek: Picard," with a new actor playing the part in a scene that killed off the character.

Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman

Plenty of TV shows have added a kid to shake up the status quo late into their run, and "Star Trek: Voyager" was not immune to this trope. In addition to Borg kids like Icheb, Samantha Wildman — the newborn daughter of a crewperson — became a recurring character beginning in Season 5, played by Scarlett Pomers. She'd wind up in 16 episodes, including a few where she played a leading role. In the aftermath of the end of the series, Pomers appeared in the Julia Roberts film "Erin Brockovich," and in 2001 joined the cast of the sitcom "Reba."

For six seasons Pomers starred as Kyra Hart, daughter of the show's star played by Reba McEntire. Appearing in a whopping 103 episodes, it was only Pomers' second regular role but also her last on-screen performance. When that series concluded, Pomers essentially retired from acting. Unfortunately, her exit from the stage was at least partly due to her ongoing battle with an eating disorder, and Pomers has since become an outspoken advocate for those struggling with anorexia and mental illness. In a 2019 interview with StarTrek.com , Pomers also talked about her subsequent career as a photographer, musician, and jewelry designer.

If you are struggling with an eating disorder, or know someone who is, help is available. Visit the National Eating Disorders Association website or contact NEDA's Live Helpline at 1-800-931-2237. You can also receive 24/7 Crisis Support via text (send NEDA to 741-741).

Martha Hackett as Seska

In the early seasons of "Star Trek: Voyager," one of the most compelling ongoing storylines was that of Seska, a Bajoran and former Maquis rebel and on-again-off-again lover of Chakotay. Played by recurring guest star Martha Hackett, it was later revealed that Seska was actually an enemy agent in disguise. Hackett would appear in a total of 13 episodes of the series, making it by far the largest role in her career. Still, she has appeared in some big hits over the last two decades.

Those included a small role in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" in 2005 and an appearance in the cult horror movie "The Bye Bye Man" in 2017. It also includes one-off appearances in episodes of popular projects on the small screen, like "The Mindy Project" in 2014, "Masters of Sex" a year earlier, and a recurring role in the daytime soap "Days of Our Lives" between 2016 and 2018. Thanks to her iconic role as Seska, though, Hackett continues to be a regular on the "Star Trek" convention circuit and was interviewed for the upcoming "Star Trek: Voyager" documentary "To the Journey."

Robert Picardo as the Doctor

For 30 years, the world of science fiction meant one thing when the moniker of "The Doctor" was uttered, but that all changed in 1995 with the launch of "Star Trek: Voyager." There, actor Robert Picardo — already known for antagonistic roles in "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" and "InnerSpace" — starred as the Doctor, the nameless holographic chief medical officer aboard the Voyager. Known for his offbeat humor and cantankerous attitude, he was played to perfection by Picardo, and it would become the actor's signature role. 

Still, even after leaving sickbay as the Doctor, Picardo had a healthy career, moving quickly into a role in "The Lyon's Den" starring Rob Lowe and Kyle Chandler in 2003. A year later he joined another iconic sci-fi franchise when he secured a recurring part in "Stargate SG-1"  as Richard Woolsey, a grumpy U.S. official who opposed the Stargate program. Following a string of appearances on the flagship series, Picardo joined the main cast of "Stargate: Atlantis" in 2006. A few years later, Picardo had another repeat role, this time as Jason Cooper on "The Mentalist," and he later enjoyed a stint on the Apple TV+ drama "Dickinson."

In 2023, the actor made a guest appearance on the "Quantum Leap" revival playing Doctor Woolsey, whose name is a clear tribute to his two biggest TV roles.

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As the fifth official Star Trek series, Star Trek: Voyager introduced audiences to an entirely new Starship and her intrepid crew. After the stationary setting of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Voyager brought things back to the stars by flinging the titular ship into an unexplored part of the galaxy. As Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) fought to bring her crew home, the USS Voyager encountered all kinds of new life forms and strange new worlds. In addition to Captain Janeway, Voyager would introduce several new characters to Star Trek , some of whom have made appearances in current Star Trek shows

The series began with Captain Janeway leading a mission to find the missing Maquis ship the Val Jean, on which her colleague and friend Tuvok (Tim Russ) was serving undercover. After Janeway found the Maquis ship, both ships were thrown 70,000 light-years across the galaxy, from the Alpha Quadrant to the Delta Quadrant, by a dying entity known as the Caretaker. Over the course of the seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager , Captain Janeway and her crew encountered alien species both old and new, as they made their way home through the uncharted Delta Quadrant.

10 Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway

The Captain of the USS Voyager, Kate Mulgrew's Kathryn Janeway has the distinction of being the first female Captain to lead a Star Trek show. Janeway initiated first contact with many new alien species across the Delta Quadrant and would eventually become an Admiral in Starfleet . As Captain of Voyager, Janeway had the difficult task not only of navigating the unfamiliar Delta Quadrant, but also of merging a crew of Starfleet officers with a crew of rebel Maquis. She managed both tasks admirably and did her best to uphold the ideals of Starfleet even 70,000 light-years from home.

9 Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay

Captain of the Val Jean, Chakotay (Robert Beltran) was a former Starfleet officer turned Maquis who became First Officer of the USS Voyager after the destruction of his ship. Chakotay helped smooth over relations between the Starfleet officers and the former Maquis, and devoted himself to serving Voyager and Captain Janeway. Despite Robert Beltran being Mexican American, his character Chakotay was of Native American descent and had a strong connection to the spirituality of his tribe. He also had a strong sense of justice and, while he mostly supported Janeway, would occasionally speak up against her, particularly if he felt she was being reckless with her own life.

8 Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok

Lt. Tuvok served as the Chief Security and Tactical Officer aboard Voyager, as well as Janeway's Second in Command. When Star Trek: Voyager began, Tuvok was undercover as a member of the Maquis abroad the Val Jean, but he was quickly reinstated as a security officer after the ships were thrown into the Delta Quadrant. As a Vulcan, Tuvok valued logic and reason , and Janeway often relied on him for advice and counsel. Tuvok and Janeway had served together before their time on Voyager and had become close friends. Despite his Vulcan stoicism, Tuvok seemed to feel deeply and often expressed himself with biting sarcastic remarks.

7 Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres

Though B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) initially attended Starfleet Academy, she eventually dropped out to join the Maquis. As a half-Klingon half-human, B'Elanna struggled with her anger and was prone to lashing out, which was part of the reason why she chose to join the rebels. She and Chakotay would become friends as they fought together with the Maquis, and Chakotay helped her work through some of her anger. When she joined the crew of Voyager, B'Elanna became the Chief Engineer after she saved the ship from a quantum singularity. She would eventually begin a romantic relationship with pilot Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill​​), and the pair got married early in season 7.

6 Robert Duncan-McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris

The USS Voyager's helmsman Tom Paris had been kicked out of Starfleet and was serving prison time when Janeway approached him to join Voyager's crew. Janeway had previously served under Tom's father, Admiral Owen Paris, and she wanted to help Tom turn his life back around. Due to Tom's less-than-stellar reputation, it took time for his Voyager crew mates to trust him. He would eventually become close friends with Ensign Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) and enter into a romantic relationship with B'Elanna Torres. Tom had a particular fascination with 20th-century American culture, and created a holodeck program called The Adventures of Captain Proton inspired by the science fiction serials of the 1930s.

5 Robert Picardo as The Doctor

After Voyager's first Doctor was killed when the ship entered the Delta Quadrant, the Emergency Medical Hologram or EMH known as The Doctor (Robert Picardo) became the ship's Chief Medical Officer. In the Star Trek: Voyager season 3 two-part episode "Future's End," The Doctor acquired a futuristic mobile emitter, which allowed him to move freely about Voyager and even join away missions. Since he was a created hologram, The Doctor's rights were sometimes called into question, much like the android Data (Brent Spiner) from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The longer he stayed active, the more human traits The Doctor acquired, and his crewmembers on Voyager stuck up for him when his sentience was questioned.

4 Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim

Eternal Ensign Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) had recently graduated from Starfleet Academy and was on his first deep space mission when Voyager was flung across the galaxy. Over the course of his time on Voyager, Harry became close friends with Tom Paris, and the two would often go on adventures together in the holodeck. Though Harry was a bit naive and overeager when he first joined Voyager's crew, he had a brilliant mind and was valedictorian of his class at the Academy. He had always wanted to join Starfleet and requested Voyager as his first assignment.

3 Ethan Phillips as Neelix

When Voyager first arrived in the Delta Quadrant, they found a Talaxian named Neelix (Ethan Phillips) near the Collector, as well as the Ocampa homeworld. He helped them navigate the underground Ocampan city where Harry Kim and B'Elanna Torres were being held prisoner. Neelix and the Voyager crew also rescued Kes (Jennifer Lien), an Ocampan woman and Neelix's romantic partner. Neelix and Kes then joined the crew of Voyager and Neelix acted as a guide for their journey through the Delta Quadrant. Neelix would serve as Voyager's chef as well as the "chief morale officer," a title he created for himself. Though Neelix was not the most popular character among fans, his stories improved after Kes left the show.

2 Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine

Assimilated at the age of six when she was still Annika Hansen, Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine joined Voyager's crew for the show's fourth season after she was disconnected from the Borg collective. After their introduction in Star Trek: The Next Generation , the Borg became one of the Federation's most dangerous foes, and Seven was the first former Borg drone to join the crew of a Federation Starship. It took Seven a while to adapt to her newfound humanity and Captain Janeway became a mentor to her. Seven used her knowledge of the Borg and their technology to build an astrometrics lab on Voyager, and she would prove instrumental in helping the ship make it back to the Alpha Quadrant. Seven would become a fan-favorite character, and Jeri Ryan later reprised Seven in Star Trek: Picard .

1 Jennifer Lien as Kes

As a member of the Ocampan species, Kes had a very short life span of only eight or nine years, as well as a natural telepathic ability. Kes chose to join Voyager's crew with Neelix after they helped rescue her, and she soon began studying medicine with The Doctor. She and The Doctor became close friends and she fought for him to be treated better by the crew. She also worked with Tuvok to hone her telepathic abilities. At the start of the series, Kes was involved in a romantic relationship with Neelix, but they broke up in season three. Kes left Voyager early in season 4 after her psychic abilities grew too strong, but she returned for one episode of season 6. With Kes and the rest of the USS Voyager's crew, Star Trek: Voyager introduced some truly compelling characters to the Star Trek universe.

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the space agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

There's a moon rock in the lobby of NASA's Washington, D.C., headquarters.

Visitors are urged to rub their fingers over its smooth, worn surface to connect with one of the greatest achievements in human history: the Apollo missions that landed 12 American men on the moon.

The rock is from the very last visit: Apollo 17, which returned to Earth in 1972. No one has returned to the moon since.

And while NASA has done astonishing things over and over since Apollo — in recent years alone, it's flown a helicopter on Mars , smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, and begun to redefine our basic understandings of space with the James Webb Space Telescope — the glory days of the moon landings feel, at times, like ancient history.

NASA is aiming to change that, and soon. The Artemis program, if all goes according to schedule, will return American astronauts to the moon within the next few years.

The United States isn't alone, though.

China is hoping to land astronauts on the moon by the end of the decade . Last week, it launched a probe to gather samples from the far side of the moon, with the goal of returning them to Earth. India and other countries have landed uncrewed craft on the moon in recent years as well.

He missed a chance to be the first Black astronaut. Now, at 90, he's going into space

This time around, the space race isn't just about who gets there first. It's a race for resources, such as water, which could fuel further space exploration to Mars and other destinations.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently spoke to All Things Considered about the agency's ambitious goals for the coming decade. He told host Scott Detrow he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China, and that he trusts SpaceX, despite Elon Musk's increasingly controversial profile. He also looked forward to Monday's scheduled Boeing Starliner test flight.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Scott Detrow: What is the goal here? What is the urgency in here that makes [returning to the moon] much more close to reality?

Bill Nelson: The goal is not just to go back to the moon. The goal is to go to the moon to learn so we can go farther to Mars and beyond. Now it so happens that we're going to go to a different part of the moon. We'll go into the South Pole, and that is attractive because we know there's ice there in the crevices of the rocks in the constant shadow or darkness. And if in fact there is water, then we [can create hydrogen] rocket fuel. And we're sending a probe later this year that is going to dig down underneath the surface on the South Pole and see if there is water.

But you go to the moon and you do all kind of new things that you need in order to go all the way to Mars. The moon is four days away. Mars, under conventional propulsion, is seven or eight months. So we're going back to the moon to learn a lot of things in order to be able to go further.

Well, hello, Voyager 1! The venerable spacecraft is once again making sense

Detrow : Lay out for me what the timeline is for Artemis right now, because this was the year that that first mission was supposed to take a crew to circle the moon. That's been delayed. What are we looking at right now?

Nelson: Understand, we don't fly until it's ready because safety is paramount. But the plan is September of next year, 2025, that the crew for three Americans and a Canadian will circle the moon and check out the spacecraft.

Then the contractual date with SpaceX [to deliver the rocket for Artemis 3 to take astronauts to the moon], a fixed price contract is one year later, September of 2026.

NASA Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch (L) speaks alongside fellow members of the crew of the Artemis II mission, with NASA astronauts Victor Glover (L) and Reid Wiseman (C), along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (R) outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 2023. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

NASA Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch (L) speaks alongside fellow members of the crew of the Artemis II mission, with NASA astronauts Victor Glover (L) and Reid Wiseman (C), along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (R) outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 2023.

Detrow: You said that nobody's going to go until they're ready. Well, as you know, the Government Accountability Office had a report late last year raising serious concerns and skepticism about the timeline that you laid out. Do you share that concern? Do you feel like this timeline is realistic?

Nelson: Well, all I can do is look to history. When we rush things, we get in trouble and we don't want to go through that again. I was on the space shuttle 10 days before the Challenger explosion , and that is something you just don't want to go through.

Seventeen astronauts have given their lives. Spaceflight is risky, especially going with new spacecraft and new hardware to a new destination.

That's why this launch of the Boeing Starliner, it's a test flight. The two astronauts, both [Butch Wilmore] and [Sunita Williams] are test pilots. If everything works well, then the next one will be the starting of a cadence [of regular launches] of four astronauts in the Starliner.

Detrow: You mentioned SpaceX, you mentioned Boeing. This is a big part of this current plan, utilizing private companies in a much different way. I do want to ask, though, SpaceX has had so much success when it comes to space flight, but Elon Musk's decision-making has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years when it comes to some of his other companies, Twitter and Tesla. His engagement in culture war politics. Are you concerned that so much of this plan is in the hands of Elon Musk at this point in time?

Nelson: Elon Musk ... one of the most important decisions he made, as a matter of fact, is he picked a president named Gwynne Shotwell. She runs SpaceX. She is excellent. And so I have no concerns.

Detrow: When you [were testifying before Congress] the other day, a lot of the questions came back to China. And in speeches you have given, you keep coming back to China as well. Why is it key to you? Why does it matter so much that the U.S. beats China back to the moon?

Nelson: First of all, I don't give a lot of speeches about China, but people ask a lot of questions about China. And it's important simply because, I know what China has done on the face of the Earth, for example, where the Spratly Islands , they suddenly take over a part of the South China Sea and say, "this is ours, you stay out."

I don't want them to get to the South Pole, which is a limited area where we think the water is. It's pockmarked with craters. And so there are limited areas that you can land on the South Pole. I don't want them to get there and say, "this is ours. You stay out."

It ought to be for the international community, for scientific research. So that's why I think it's important for us to get there first.

Detrow: The U.S. is part of a lot of different treaties in terms of, you know, sharing its work with other countries. I guess people in China might hear that and say, "we're concerned the U.S. would do the same."

Nelson: Well, but we are the instigators with the international community, now upwards of 40 nations ... of the Artemis Accords , which are commonsense declarations about the peaceful use of space, which includes working with others, which includes going to somebody else's rescue, having common elements. ... But China and Russia have not [signed on].

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has a collection of model spacecraft in his Washington, D.C., office. Elizabeth Gillis/NPR hide caption

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has a collection of model spacecraft in his Washington, D.C., office.

Detrow: This is being framed in the same space race terms in many ways: the U.S. versus China. Is that how you see it?

Nelson: With regard to going to the moon? Yes.

Detrow: And that's specifically about making sure that that those resources around the South Pole are protected.

Nelson: And the peaceful uses for all peoples. That's basically the whole understanding of the space treaty that goes back decades ago . It is another iteration of the declaration of the peaceful uses of space.

Detrow: How else can the U.S. ensure that other than getting there first?

Nelson: We've got a lot of partners. And the partners generally, you know, nations that get along with China as well as nations that get along with Russia. By the way, we get along with Russia. Look, ever since 1975 in civilian space, we have been cooperating with Russia in space.

Detrow: And that's continued throughout the Ukraine war, in space.

Nelson: Without a hitch.

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Detrow: So with China, how do you balance the speed and urgency and concern that you feel with the safety element that we talked about before? Because both are very important to you.

Nelson: We don't fly until it's ready. That's it.

Detrow: When you were on the Hill the other day, a lot of the questions had to do with resources, but also concern that China might be viewing lunar activity through a military prism. Do you share that concern?

Nelson: I do.

Detrow: Can you tell us what specifically you're concerned about?

Nelson: Well, I think if you look at their space program, most of it has some connection to their military.

Detrow: What's the solution to that then from the U.S. perspective?

Nelson: Well, take history. In the middle of the Cold War, two nations realized they could annihilate each other with their nuclear weapons. So was there something of high technology that the two nations — Russia, in this case, the Soviet Union, and America could do?

And an Apollo spacecraft rendezvoused and docked with a Soviet Soyuz. And the crews lived together in space. And the crews became good friends. Now that says a lot.

So that's what history teaches us that we can overcome. I would like for that to happen with China. But the Chinese government has been very secretive in their space program, their so-called civilian space program.